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by frou_dh 6y ago
I enjoy intentionally avoiding some uses of the chainsaw by instead piping into "while read -r", and hence getting a loop body with some room to manoeuvre.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
I remember seeing this used inside config files for the Caddy webserver. Google seem to like these executable config languages because they've got another open source one ("Starlark") a few notches up in expressivity.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
I tried JavaFX recently and within seconds all I could notice was jacked up font rendering. By this point, it should be table-stakes that any GUI framework must always be tapped into identical font rendering to native apps on the host platf
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by frou_dh 6y ago
I use both. Terminal tools for quick diffs and Kaleidoscope for larger diffs that I need to read more carefully. It's more readable since the value-add UI elements on and around the text can use fine-grained drawing/layout rather
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by frou_dh 6y ago
They offer a normal download these days: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ I like SF Mono. Use it anywhere I have HiDPI.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Not just off-topic, against the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by frou_dh 6y ago
If a CLI program ceases to make sense when its standard-output is a physical line-printer onto a roll of paper, then it's a TUI.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Can any iSH aficionado provide a step-by-step on how to augment this release version of the app with an additional binary executable? For example the nano text editor. EDIT: Managed it like this: 1. Download this file and put it on iCloud D
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by frou_dh 6y ago
I remember hearing something along the lines of the odd typing in SQLite being vestigial from its early days when it was closely aligned with Tcl.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
I don't like SQLite because of this: https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html > The type affinity of a column is the recommended type for data stored in that column. The important idea here is that the type is recommen
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by frou_dh 6y ago
I've wondered about how much energy gets pissed away by running huge OS×LangVersion Continuous Integration matrices upon every commit to repositories.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
> Enabled WebGL2 by default That has taken an absurdly long time to arrive in Safari, but better late than never!
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by frou_dh 6y ago
It's quite some years in and traction for backend web development in Swift seems to remain low. There's a small community which is excited by doing that, but in betting terms I doubt the language is going to take off outside of wr
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by frou_dh 6y ago
When developers get creative with fully custom GUI drawing then the user is often rewarded with dodgy text rendering.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
To me those ML syntax look very in keeping with the fact that it's an immutable update. Don't mind them at all.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
On the other end of the scale, we have base-1, e.g. scratching a row of 1's on a surface as a tally. I guess base-0 can't really exist, since 0⁰ is undefined.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
The "p" is kinda interesting because it used to convey useful extra information (presence of Progressive Scan), but now that's simply a given in almost every context. So the "p" has sort of degraded into nothing mor
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Cool that real modules are now official. Preprocessor textual inclusion should have been left behind in the previous century!
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Cameras certified under Apple's "HomeKit Secure Video" are probably good in terms of data policies. Don't know how they compete in terms of features.
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Witnessing developers copy-paste code from their editor into textareas on webpages to do formatting/linting/etc induces the same kind of internal cringe-factor as when witnessing general computer users use the mouse for absolutely
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Third from bottom says you shouldn't do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by frou_dh 6y ago
That's true and I know from experience that when teaching people about git, the distinction between git/GitHub can be hard to grasp. Personally though, I found it very helpful to understand that a GitHub repo is just another node
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by frou_dh 6y ago
That's a factor but I don't think it's limited to attention deficit ingrates spamming new issues. I've seen tons of perfectly reasonable comments along the lines of "This old issue got closed as a duplicate, but aft
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Yeah, "Fork" as brandished by GitHub Inc is really a misnomer. We already have a verb meaning to duplicate a git repo into your own space: Clone !! So that button action in GitHub's web UI is really "(Cloud) Clone".
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by frou_dh 6y ago
My impression from looking at the repo's Issues occasionally is that the maintainers seem to be permanently pissed-off and/or burned-out. They close so many issues as Duplicates but never link to what they are duplicates of, and i
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by frou_dh 6y ago
The modern OCaml tooling (opam for package management, dune for building) is impressive. It all feels very professional and industry-grade now. Really comprehensive and well-designed CLIs, proper man pages for all subcommands, and sweating
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Personally I wouldn't consider any electronic note taking that doesn't have automatic bidirectional syncing with my other devices (phone, desktop). That should really be table-stakes by now, because ubiquity is one of the main ups
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by frou_dh 6y ago
Apparently the following is the response from the editor. It sounds nice and mature actually. Hopefully this event has snapped them out of the delusion they've been afflicted with. > Honestly, I don't mind if you revert all of
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by frou_dh 6y ago
"Reason" was/is an inspired name for this kind of programming language. I mean, here's what the dictionary says: reason [mass noun] The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements logically -- Al
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by frou_dh 6y ago
AFAIK it's a forked compiler and already a number of language versions behind the mainline one.

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